ioi said:
@Just_Ben, who's being childish now?
I actually like the idea of putting together a margin of error statement for the site. My issue is that the only way to do it is experimentally using some of the data we post and basically compiling and comparing the accuracies. The second problem is that the only data we have to compare to is NPD, which I feel has reasonable errors in its own data. So unless we can somehow setup a random sample of data and find corresponding "real" data to do a study against (a third party can do this if they wish) then I struggle to see how we can do it. And it's certainly not something that can be demonstrated analytically. If a publisher wanted to partake in a study to compare their shipment and retailer feedback data to ours so that we can say "90% of the time we are within 10% of the real figures" or whatever I'd be happy!!
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Me? Yes that was childish, but there is a difference between you and me. And as soon you would set me in an official position for your site, I would stop doing that. But since you and me agree that I don't fit on any off the positions you could offer, I have the freedem to be so ;)
